Brian Kirby's Biography

Brian Kirby,
Associate Professor,
Cornell University

Brian J. Kirby currently directs the Micro/Nanofluidics Laboratory in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, following several years as Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Microfluidics Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. Professor Kirby has received a 2002 R&D Top 100 Invention award for work on microvalves for high pressure-fluid control, a 2004 JD Watson Investigator award for microdevices for protein production and analysis, and a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award for nanoscale electrokinetics and bioagent detection.

We describe GEDI microfluidic devices and their implementation to capture and analyze CTCs in multiple diseases. GEDI device performance, functional assays, and genetic assays will be detailed with a focus on pancreatic and prostate cancer as well as patients with hereditary susceptibility syndromes.